food

[Biff383]

Ever eat a Wichity grub? (SP)
I've had snail's but I can't see bugs.

[dr.diesel]

I had a Zesty Bacon Cheeseburger for lunch, but no grubs and it comes from above ground.

I'm getting ready to cook some Salmon, they live in water, perhaps they eat grubs?

[Stonent]

I had escargot at the wedding reception when my dad got remarried. I didn't see how it was that much different than other mollusks.

If this is mainly about strange things I've eaten:
1. Rattlesnake - Tasted like chicken but very very tough to chew
2. Alligator - Tasted like chicken but a slightly more gamey taste.
3. Calf Fries - They were prepared in a batter like chicken fried steak (for the non-americans, a cube steak dipped in batter and fried, typically served with white gravy).  Incidentally, they were served with white gravy like chicken fried steak.
4. Frog Legs - again, very much like chicken
5. Crawfish - (not strange really in the southern US)
6. Sushi - I don't see it as strange, but some do still.

[GreyWoolfe]

When I was in Nebraska, I had beef fries which were sliced bull testicles batter dipped and fried.  Very excellent.  I personally don't think that alligator tastes like chicken, but that is my opinion.  I love sushi, especially raw and any with eel.  I also enjoy baby octopus sashimi.  I am not a big red meat eater but love venison.  Rabbit is pretty good also.  +1 for frog legs and crawfish.  Probably the weirdest thing I've eaten is jellyfish.  Not much taste, mostly a textural thing.  I will eat almost anything out of the water except Fugu and I won't eat live baby octopus to see if it could block my airway.  Favorite seafood is squid in all it's various preparations.

[Stonent]

When I was in Nebraska, I had beef fries which were sliced bull testicles batter dipped and fried.  Very excellent.  I personally don't think that alligator tastes like chicken, but that is my opinion.  I love sushi, especially raw and any with eel.  I also enjoy baby octopus sashimi.  I am not a big red meat eater but love venison.  Rabbit is pretty good also.  +1 for frog legs and crawfish.  Probably the weirdest thing I've eaten is jellyfish.  Not much taste, mostly a textural thing.  I will eat almost anything out of the water except Fugu and I won't eat live baby octopus to see if it could block my airway.  Favorite seafood is squid in all it's various preparations.

I have had Venison, and rabbit before too.  I had rabbit at Marcel's in DC, down the street from the Whitehouse when I was on my honeymoon.  I don't know if it is just typical of Rabbit in general but it was basically "melt in your mouth" texture.  Somewhat in the area of prime rib (not in taste, but in texture)

[miguelvp]

Conejo con caracoles (Rabbit with snails) is a popular dish in Spain. My Grandmother use to make it in special family reunions, delicious!

Weirdest thing I've eaten (at least weird to me) is bees in Japan on a business trip. The guys at Toshiba took us to what they considered the best restaurant in the area.

But in Spain we use to eat Angulas (baby eels) but now they are pretty pricey
http://www.buber.net/Basque/Food/food1.html

Other things, Soup with chicken feet for taste, pig hoofs are also an ingredient for soups as well, cow tong, sesos (brains), Callos (tripe). All kinds of birds from hunts (you had to be carefull not to eat the buckshot). All kind of wild mushrooms picked by my uncle who knew which ones were poisonous and which ones not. Seafood all kinds since my home town was a fisherman town.

Since I've been in the States, I try everything Venison, bison, austrich, etc, and lucky me I live in Chicago where you can find food from Anywhere.

Edit: because Tim below reminded me of it, love Morcilla (blood sausage) and of course liver and onions.

My favorite food, duck confit with fries cooked on the duck fat, and piping hot lamb chops prepared with cumin.

[T3sl4co1l]

Hmm, I've had snails before... they were dripping in garlic butter so not really anything special about them, in and of themselves.  Unusually gritty?  Probably the kind of thing that should be cleaned well...

Otherwise, probably the most unusual ethnic thing I've had is blood and tongue sausage, which is more like tongue in slightly bloody gelatin, spiced, smoked and sliced.  Blood in food is probably underrated, not that there's much in the stuff anyway.  (I haven't had, like, blood and kidney pudding, or whatever, which I would guess uses a lot more.)  Tongue is good stuff in general; very fine texture, somewhat gamey flavor.

Tim

[Lightages]

Ever eat a Wichity grub? (SP)
I've had snail's but I can't see bugs.

Yup! Ate a big fat live one in the Simpson desert in Australia. It was like biting into a wriggling rubber band filled with a nutty flavored thick paste. Just make sure you hold the head and bite the rest of the body away. If you try it the other way the grub will grab onto your throat with its mandibles on the way down!

Aligator, rattle snake, frog, crickets, ants and worms have also been in my digestive system.

[GeoffS]

Crocodile,  snake, emu and kangaroo but never Wichity grubs. Local supermarket stocks both kangaroo and wallaby.
Rabbits used to be a cheap feed but nowadays,  the ones the butcher sells are bred for meat and too expensive, pretty tasteless too.

Spending the day baking some sausage rolls for a party this evening. Pork, veal,  fennel  and mushroomwith a home made tomato sauce. Must get started on the puff pastry.

[GEuser]

Yep like others here real ones direct outta a fallen log/s  , nice on the end of a stick roasted over a fire !

They got canned ones out there somewhere , also other strange things in cans too .

edited later> I could not find 1 link for tinned stuff , they used to be about like 15 years ago , Roo tail soup , goanna soup and others I recall now .

[GreyWoolfe]

Hmm, I've had snails before... they were dripping in garlic butter so not really anything special about them, in and of themselves.  Unusually gritty?  Probably the kind of thing that should be cleaned well...

Otherwise, probably the most unusual ethnic thing I've had is blood and tongue sausage, which is more like tongue in slightly bloody gelatin, spiced, smoked and sliced.  Blood in food is probably underrated, not that there's much in the stuff anyway.  (I haven't had, like, blood and kidney pudding, or whatever, which I would guess uses a lot more.)  Tongue is good stuff in general; very fine texture, somewhat gamey flavor.

Tim

I have had pastrami and tongue sandwiches with cole slaw and russian dressing.  I like tongue.  The blood and tongue sausage sounds really interesting.  I have also eaten snails and squngilli (welk or conch depending on what part of the country).  I don't know about eating bugs in the woods but I would try them off of a restaurant menu.  I don't shy away from the "unusual" when it comes to food.  Part of it is for the cultural experience, part of it is for the gross factor.  The first time I had baby octopus sashimi, I was out with SWMBO for sushi and had it as the appetizer.  She asked me if I was really going to eat that so I popped the first one in my mouth.  She said that if I wanted any kisses, I needed to wash my mouth out with Listerine 

[T3sl4co1l]

The first time I had baby octopus sashimi, I was out with SWMBO for sushi and had it as the appetizer.  She asked me if I was really going to eat that so I popped the first one in my mouth.  She said that if I wanted any kisses, I needed to wash my mouth out with Listerine 

I hope you waved one loudly in her face after that comment

[M4trix]

Snails? Look at this delicatessen stuff.

[Biff383]

Thanks for the replys. I suppose I was wondering what people around the world consider good food. Or food .